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Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animalrights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animalrights. This makes perfect sense.
In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animalrights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.
Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animalrights activists. Over at AnimalRights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.
Next, a fellow introvert e-mailed me describing herself as extremely awkward socially as well as invisible and having social anxiety, and asking where/how she might be useful to the animalrightsmovement. and What does the market/world/animals need? Finally, two films. I also saw " What's On Your Plate?
By abusing evolutionary biology in this way, we are able to read back the sophisticated conduct of people into the animal behavior that prefigures it. But this means that the apes appeal to animal-rights activists for precisely the wrong reason—namely, that they look like people and behave like people, while making no moral demands.
Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in AnimalRights Debate? Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animalrightsmovement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?
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